Sulaym said: “I was told by Hadhrat Ali ibn Abu Talib (AS). He said: “I was
going somewhere in Medina with the Holy Prophet (SAW). We came
towards a garden. I said to the Holy Prophet: O Prophet of Allah, how
beautiful this garden is! He said: “Yes, it is very beautiful and in Paradise
there will be a more beautiful garden for you.”
“Then we reached towards another garden and I said: “O Prophet of Allah,
how beautiful this garden is!” He said: “Yes, it is beautiful and in Paradise
there is a garden more beautiful than this for you.” Until we came across
seven gardens, I kept on saying how beautiful each garden was and his reply
was that there was a better garden for me in Paradise.
When we left the road, he hugged me and then started crying and said: “May
my father be sacrificed on him who is a lone martyr.” I asked: “O Prophet of
Allah why are you crying?” He replied: “My community’s hearts are filled
with jealousy and they will show the jealousy after my death. That will be
enmity of Badr and Ohad.”
I asked: “Will my religion remain intact?” He replied: “Yes it will remain
intact and O Ali there is good tiding for you because your life and death is
with me – you are my brother, my successor, my chosen one, my vizier, my
inheritor, and a messenger from me, the payer of my debts, the fulfiller of
my promises, completer of me responsibilities, payer of my amanah (what
has been deposited in trust), the warrior on my tradition, with those who
break the allegiance from my Ummah, and warrior with those who are
oppressors and with those that run away from religion. You have the same
status with me that Haroon had with Musa and you have Haroon’s footsteps
in front of you at the time when his community thought he was weak and
wanted to kill him.
Reference : KITAB-E-SULAYM IBN QAYS AL HILALI